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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt:... Had Rothschild failed, the whole world would have been bankrupt. If men like Harriman, Morgan and Rockefeller fail, the same result is achieved. VIII THE CONFIRMATION A Natural I* *s related that when the Schemer President occupied the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, his fevered imagination was constantly occupied with new and impossible schemes which were often, in the regular routine of business, laid before the McKinley cabinet. Very often these schemes were presented and personally urged by Roosevelt himself, and it is said that not only were they uniformly rejected, but rarely failed to create amusement among the more experienced statesmen before whom they were brought. ThePresi- is natura DEGREES to suppose that dent's Volatile the President's volatile and Disposition effervescent nature should be attracted by what is fantastic and unreal rather than by the sober realities of life. That he is fond of what is spectacular and sensational has often been asserted and can hardly be denied. It would, therefore, be quite reasonable to suppose that he would be considerably affected by the inflammatory writings and utterances of speculators of the Lawson type. It hardly reflects to the credit of the mass of the people that expressions emanating from sources such as these should not only receive so great publicity, but should be accepted by a large number of otherwise sensible people as if they were the prophecies of a mighty seer. Lawson himself has admitted Lawson's Recent what was long common knowlConfession edgCj not Qnly among those fa_ miliar with the details of the financial world, but among the sagacious and thinking members of the community, namely, that his chief object in all this has been self-advertisement